prosperous age

Chapter 567 Chapter 566 Re-examination
In fact, Yan Song is very good at being a person and an official, otherwise he would not be able to be the chief assistant.

However, Yan Song's stumble also fell on his son.

Yan Shifan didn't learn his way of being an official at all, and became arrogant after seeing his father in power. The most important thing was that he violated the taboo in the officialdom, that is, to monopolize the benefits, and others hardly get any.

And Yan Song's way of being an official was because of the ruthless Emperor Jiajing's liking, so his official career went smoothly. Even when the officials impeached him for favoritism, his son Yan Shifan used Yan Song's public tools for private use, and he was not punished for embezzling and extorting bribes.

Yan Shifan's courage also grew stronger and stronger in the impeachment of Yanguan Qingliu, and even dared to blatantly steal the treasures in the palace when he was in charge of Shangbaojian, but nothing happened.

It can be said that Yan Shifan's development to the present is not only due to Yan Song's lax discipline, but also due to Emperor Jiajing's connivance.

The reason why Emperor Jiajing did this was because Yan Song was really good at being an official, and he did everything that Emperor Jiajing wanted him to do.

The money in the national treasury will soon be sent to the inner court for his use after Yan Song's hands.

In fact, after Emperor Jiajing came to power, lack of money always restricted him from enjoying and cultivating, but when Yan Song replaced Xia Yan, these difficulties disappeared, and the government ran smoothly. How could he not trust his father and son.

Wei Guangde and Feng Baoxian left the Ministry of Criminal Justice without waiting for the trial results in the front lobby.

But when he was leaving the gate of the Criminal Department, Wei Guangde suddenly remembered something again, so he stood still and asked Feng Baodao: "Eunuch Feng, the old residences of Shangshuge in Beijing, have any suspicious people come in and out recently, please ask Eunuch Li personally . '

"Master Wei, what do you mean?"

Feng Bao was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, and said a little suspiciously.

"Hehe, take precautions before they happen."

Wei Guangde just smiled lightly, then pointed to the interior of the Ministry of Punishment, and continued: "He Yan Shifan is not very courageous, because with His Majesty's favor, who can guarantee that no one will not open their eyes at this time."

After speaking, Wei Guangde strode to his carriage, stepped on the low stool and got into the carriage.

Feng Bao stood still for a moment, he understood Wei Guangde's meaning.

Most of the important officials in the court are the people who are favored by Emperor Jiajing. Their current situation is actually similar to that of Yan Shifan back then.
Feng Bao shook his head, although he didn't believe it, but since Wei Guangde proposed, he still had to talk to Li Fang after returning to Prince Yu's mansion.

The matter has nothing to do with him, but if the words are not brought, and something happens later, the responsibility can't be separated from him.

After returning to Prince Yu's mansion, he mentioned this matter to Li Fang, and Li Fang really took it very seriously, and immediately summoned the eunuch in charge of the outer court to inquire about the monitoring situation of the two elders and the Shangshu's mansion.

Although Yu Wang has a close relationship with the six ministers of the imperial court, Li Fang still sent people to pay close attention to the movements of each family.

Speaking of which, this was Wei Guangde's reminder to him.

There are no permanent friends in politics, only permanent interests.

An eunuch like Li Fang, whose entire wealth is tied to King Yu, naturally has no possibility of betrayal, and even someone like Gao Gong who has a close relationship with King Yu may not be wholeheartedly thinking about King Yu when he has enough interests.

After all, his origin and official position were all given by the court.

When Wei Guangde said this, he naturally had no good intentions, or it was a double-edged sword, but he thought it was worth it.

Who is Li Fang, that is King Yu's help, and their conversation will definitely reach King Yu's ears.

Gao Gong's status in Yu Wang's heart is too high, and it is really difficult to shake it without some tricks, and this is the first thing he did.

A few days later, Lin Run, the censor, arrested Yan Shifan Luo Longwen and went to Beijing. There were many illegal acts of extravagance and sexual abuse by the imperial court.

After more than a month of interrogation, at the end of the first month, Huang Guangsheng, Minister of the Ministry of punishment, and other chief executives played the words before and after the prison.

"The Shibo are negative, rebellious and unrestrained, and they don't respect the life and death of the imperial court. They dare to fake it for fear of drinking the famous utensils of the country rewarded by foreign princes, and they dare to sell them to collect goods for themselves.

From hundreds of divisions at home and abroad, as well as civil and military generals and officials from the nine borders, they send gifts at the age of the year, and the name is: Greetings.

Anyone who investigates meritorious deeds and builds a city must first take the money, and it may be as large as tens of thousands, or as small as thousands. Na Shifan called it: buy your life.

Every time there is a general election, there is an urgent election to push for promotion and pick up items, and they will pick up heavy goods, choose places, choose officials, and pay attention to the details.

And when he has been promoted and took up his post, he searched the treasury and exploited the small people's gold and silk treasures, but he gave them away. The name is: Thank you.

What's more, the Ministry of Household released two half of the silver from each side and returned it to Shifan, or divided it before leaving the capital, or returned it after arriving, so that the morale of the people was very bad.
The rebel Wang directly hooked up the Japanese internal strife, and the crime is not forgiven. The Zhihui people and Luo Longwen had an old marriage, and they paid [-] gold, which Shifan proposed to be the official.

The vicious vassals ruled that Yin and Hebei were not divided, and the Shifan accepted their heavy bribes as protection. It almost caused thieves to harm the people and worry about the clan.

The storehouse in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, is a province’s reserve department. Shifan was deceived by the evil conspiracy of the medical officer Peng Kong, and plotted his land to take advantage of the king’s spirit, so he demolished it and built a mansion.
Forgive him for his death and relegation to serve as the Leizhou Guard Army. He didn't want to take the blame and be grateful, but he was unhappy with resentment and hope for safety.

Long Wen also fled back from Xunzhou Wei, and cursed with each other, and conspired to recruit desperate traitors and all kinds of evil words, illusions, astronomy and heretics to more than [-] people. The people trained and drilled, and more than a dozen assassins were arranged to order revenge and murder, so as to deter everyone.

As for the beasts and traitors, there are hundreds of them entering and leaving the capital without any worries, and the roads to and fro are endless.

Long Wen also recruited more than [-] members of Wang Zhitong's Japanese party to join Shifan to Japan. He first sent a letter to dispatch Shifan's head Niu, and he also abandoned the army from Shanhaiwei and went north, intending to induce the northern captives to respond from the north and the south.

The son of Shifan ordered the court to hide the former assassin in Beijing with a brocade robe and a salary."

The performance by Huang Guangsheng and others spread throughout the court in no time, and everyone who heard the news was shocked.

In fact, Yan Shifan's accusations of collusion and treason were mentioned in Lin Run's impeachment memorial, but everyone just laughed it off.

For example, in Lin Run's memorabilia, it was said that Yan Shifan raised the dead and recruited more than [-] strong men.

The so-called "rumours and events" by the censor are just that. In today's world, who can really think that the rebellion can be successful with 4000 people.

However, what they didn't expect was that the memorandum of the Ministry of Justice actually approved this matter.

For a while, the scene when the Yan family was in power came back to many people's minds. At that time, the political struggle was really life-and-death, leaving no room for it. The same is true for Huang Guangsheng's Shangzuo.

For the vast majority of courtiers, they felt that they needed to get to know Huang Guangsheng again, and the attack was really ruthless, but some officials could not help but quietly wiped their sweat after reading the memorial of the Ministry of Punishment.

This is the case with Dong Fen, the servant. He, like Yuan Wei, Yan Na, Li Chunfang and others, all rely on "Qingci" to flatter Emperor Jiajing. Naturally, he is favored. Seeing that there is a vacancy, he can be promoted to another level Become the current Shangshu.

For such an official with a bright future, he should cherish his feathers, but this time he really committed the problem of greed for money.

As for political struggles, dismissal or resignation should be the end of the matter. This is the usual practice. The Yan family has already collapsed. In his opinion, continuing to have Yan Shifan is nothing more than aggravating the felony and charging further places.

But looking at Huang Guangsheng's memorabilia transcribed in his hand, he was going to add crimes here and there, and he was simply rushing to ransack the family and exterminate the family.

Corruption, collusion with the Japanese, violation of the system, and even collude with the northern captives to seek rebellion.
Dong Fen saw it, and the cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

From Yan Song's point of view, he still wanted to say something nice to Yan Shifan before the sentence was pronounced, but now he is completely dumb, so it's better not to get involved, hoping to expose the matter.

In Xiyuan, Emperor Jiajing frowned after reading Huang Guangsheng's memorial.

To be honest, he didn't want to force Yan's family to death. After all, Yan Song was very comfortable serving him in those years, almost responding to every request, and was blamed for all his mistakes.

Emperor Jiajing didn't want to bear the reputation of being ungrateful and ungrateful for such a person.

Last time, he actually raised it high and lowered it gently. He thought he had taught the Yan family a lesson, but he didn't expect that there would be so many twists and turns afterwards.

Jin Yiwei had already reported Yan Shifan's running back to Jiangxi in secret, but he did not take any action and let him live in the folk, but he did not expect to come to this step in the end.

He was not satisfied with the charges submitted by the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

However, he also sensitively sensed from Huang Guangsheng's memorial that there is a huge force in the court that wants Yan Shifan to die.

Picking up a pen, he wrote after Huang Guangsheng's memorial: "This traitor is so special that you don't study it, but just talk about it. How can he show the world to future generations? .”

When the memorial returned to the cabinet, Xu Jie frowned slightly when he saw that Emperor Jiajing had asked Jin Yiwei to participate in the re-examination.

The Ministry of Punishment, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Dali Temple are actually grasshoppers on the same rope, but they didn't consider that Emperor Jiajing would let Jin Yiwei participate in the re-examination.

Immediately, while ordering someone to return the approved memorial to the Ministry of Punishment and notify the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, and Jinyiwei, he quickly wrote a note and ordered someone to send it to Yuwang Mansion.

The boss of Jin Yiwei is Zhu Xixiao. As the lineage of Cheng Guogong, he may not sell his face as the chief minister of the cabinet, but King Yu's face is different.

At this time Wei Guangde was correcting his books in the school record hall, when Lu Bu hurried in and whispered in his ear: "Master, Mr. Feng from Prince Yu's Mansion is asking to see you."

"Please come in."

Wei Guangde put down the manuscript in his hand, got up and greeted him.

After he and Feng Bao were seated and Lu Bu brought tea, Wei Guangde saw Feng Bao's gloomy face, and immediately ordered Lu Bu to watch at the gate of the yard, and no one else was allowed to enter.

As the branch school officer of "Yongle Dadian", he has an independent courtyard, the courtyard gate is facing the main room, and the position of Lubu can be seen from the room, so it is safe and hidden, so that he and Feng Bao can talk at ease.

After Lu Bu arrived at the gate of the courtyard, Feng Bao took out a note from his pocket and handed it to Wei Guangde.

"Master Wei, please take a look."

"This is."

Wei Guangde took it over and looked at it, then pointed to him and then to himself.

Feng Bao nodded.

Seeing Feng Bao's gesture, Wei Guangde frowned slightly.

Since Lu Bing's death, he has less contact with Jin Yiwei, and only has contact with Lu Yi. In other words, he and Zhu Xixiao don't see each other a few times throughout the year.

The thing to do this time is to ask Zhu Xixiao to turn a blind eye during the re-examination, if it is too big, it is deceiving the king.

"Master Wei, King Yu said that you are the one in the palace to talk about this matter."

Feng Bao spoke at this time.

He was also arranged to go to see Zhu Xixiao with Wei Guangde, which also reassured him and let him know that this matter was the intention of King Yu.

After all, eunuchs are not so easy to order.

Wei Guangde knew in his heart that his status as the son-in-law of Duke Wei's mansion was very popular among the nobles of the royal family, but to avoid suspicion, Wei Guangde rarely went to the mansion of nobles in the capital.

He was able to be accepted by King Yu in just a few years, and this status is actually indispensable.

The royal family of the Ming Dynasty was really relieved of those nobles who were on the same kinship with the country.

After Wei Guangde asked about Emperor Jiajing's comment on Huang Guangsheng's memorial, he bowed his head in silence and began to think.

However, Wei Guangde figured it out quickly.

Zhu Xixiao may not be willing to be involved in Yan Shifan's case, if he goes to him by himself, he just needs to bring up the old matter again, and Zhu Xixiao should know how to do it if he wants to come.

Yes, Wei Guangde intends to reveal the fact that the Ministry of Household Affairs withheld the yearly gift from Prince Yu's Mansion back then, and directly said in front of Zhu Xixiao that Yan Shifan was behind the scenes. Zhu Xixiao, as a member of Cheng Guogong's lineage, should know what to do.

No need to tell him what to hide or what, he knows it himself.

Although Lu Bing was in charge of Jinyi Guard at that time, Zhu Xixiao must be able to consult the original documents now.

"Then where is Commander Zhu?"

After Wei Guangde figured it out, he asked.

"It should be Fusi in Beizhen."

Feng Bao replied, but his face was a little unnatural.

"Then let's go now."

Wei Guangde stood up and said, returning the note to Feng Bao.

Jin Yiwei has a very complicated attitude towards eunuchs. It can be said that he loves and hates him, otherwise there is no Dongchang.

No eunuch would dislike Dongchang rights.

But there was no one in the East Factory, so they had to transfer people from Jinyiwei.

Eunuch, you can't take over Jinyiwei, only the commander of the guard can take over this position.

When the eunuch gets that position, he will definitely look there. All the factory owners in the East Factory want to firmly control Jinyiwei.

However, just a few years ago, Lu Bing, the commander of Jinyiwei, personally took care of several eunuchs, and the fear was engraved deep in the hearts of the eunuchs.

When he was still in the office of Rites Supervisor Ren Bingbi, Feng Bao fantasized countless times that he would take over the East Factory, and then control Jinyiwei, so that he would have unlimited power.

Perhaps, except for Admiral Huang Jin, he can ignore others.

But now, he is going to meet the head of Jin Yiwei with Wei Guangde.

Feng Bao didn't think that even if he returned to the Supervisor of Rites, he would be able to control Zhu Xixiao.

Although he was not used to being with eunuchs, the smell of them, the smell of the sachet, sometimes made Wei Guangde unbearable.

However, today's matter is not small, he must explain the matter clearly with Feng Bao, lest he make a mistake when he sees Zhu Xixiao in a while.

"Eunuch Feng, get in my car, let's discuss what to say in the car."

After Wei Guangde walked out of the gate, he whispered to Feng Bao.

(End of this chapter)